It's what happens and it gave us a really big issue a few years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...

No, that is because of speculatively executing one path, not both paths in parallel.

Offtopic: The article reads very much like it's chatgpt generated. But it's not surprising giving the subject matter. I just dislike how a computer tries to be entertaining and uses this default "voice" when writing anything. I hope there will be some way to personalize the output text, so it will be correct, but not soulless.

I like how all the jokes/memes about what customers ask for vs. what developers produce, now apply to what developers ask for vs. what AI produces.

Sorry, but this story reads like an AI generated text and the subject matter is ridiculous. The person in the text is narrow minded, selfish etc. There are a multitude of reasons public/commercial laundry would want to have an app. If one wants to have it tailored to their old-fashioned ways they have to own their own laundry machine.

It’s not always possible to have a personal laundry machine available. Is it too much to ask that the machines also accept a credit card scanned in-person?

It is/was nice to learn from it all those years ago. I don't see there's much (if any) further progress in completing it though.

Book of shaders is a good intro, and a nice complement to Inigo Quilez's https://iquilezles.org/ tutorials. While it has not been updated in a while, Patricio is responsive on GitHub :)